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5 Spinney Drive Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5LY

23/0760/TTPOWorks to TPO treesApproved

Approved on 2 October 2023

Council decision: Granted PermissionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

1) Maple - Fell. This tree's main stem failed several years ago. This has left an unattractive hole in the canopy which has still not filled in (photo 1). Of more concern is the rip wound that was left at the top of main trunk. It has some advanced decay (see photos 3-5) - this is the wood supporting the branch over the neighbours. The rip wound in photo 5 has not occluded and is on the tension side of the trunk. There is a cavity in this rip wound. The cavity appears to be within Mattecks t/r>0.3 failure criteria at the moment (from probing with screwdriver). That said, It is very likely that the branch will fail in the future. Reducing this branch significantly will leave the tree looking even more mutilated than it does at the moment.

Received
19 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shelford
Agent
Care for Trees Ltd.
  1. Received19 Jul
  2. Validated19 Jul
  3. Consult.14 Aug
  4. Target13 Sep
  5. Decided2 Oct

Decided in 75 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at 5 Spinney Drive Great Shelford Cambridgeshire CB22 5LY. South Cambridgeshire has handled 2,015 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 4 weeks longer than South Cambridgeshire's typical decision time. The site is in the Great Shelford conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 156 applications across Shelford. We hold 1,982 applications in total for the CB22 postcode area.

97% of trees applications at South Cambridgeshire District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CB22 5LY
Application type
Works to TPO trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Shelford CP
District
South Cambridgeshire District Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 July 2023
Consultation expiry
14 August 2023
Consultation start
24 July 2023
Consultation end
14 August 2023
Last date for comments
14 August 2023
Target decision date
13 September 2023
Permission expires
2 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Care for Trees Ltd.
Agent address
3 Woollards Lane Great Shelford Cambridge CB22 5LZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
20
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Great Shelford
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO 0008 (2002)Part of the site · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: South Cambridgeshire

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